Events

The Center for Musical Excellence NY
Min Kwon, Director
and the Pianists of the 2012 CME New York Winter Festival and Academy
Closing Concert: Feb. 4, Saturday at 6pm

Faust Harrison Piano & Arts Center in Westchester
214 Central Avenue
White Plains, NY 10606

Limited seating available, please rsvp to events@faustharrisonpianos.com.

Senior Faculty:
Martin Canin, Pavlina Dokovska, Daniel Epstein, Choongmo Kang, Min Kwon, Jerome Lowenthal, Robert McDonald, Solomon Mikowsky, Andre Michel Schub

Associate Faculty:
Alexander Beridze, Tanya Gabrielian, Yoonjung Han, Miao Hou, Yevgeny Morozov, Soyoun Park, Diyi Tang, Vladimir Valjarevic

Participants:
Daniel Anastasio, Eun Hyang Choi, Peng Cheng He, Sun A Kang, Heegan Lee, Michael Lee, Vutu Nguyen, Si Hyeon Park, Mihwa Ryu, Grace Shin, Aza Torshkoeva, Yuchong Wu, Ming Xie, Yao Yi

Jean Kim
February 18th, 7pm

Faust Harrison Piano & Arts Center in Westchester
214 Central Avenue
White Plains, NY 10606

Limited seating available, please rsvp to events@faustharrisonpianos.com.

Faust Harrison Pianos Presents

Hui Mei Lin & Barry Mort, duo pianists

Sunday, March 18th, 7pm in Manhattan

Saturday, March 24th, 7pm in White Plains

Limited seating available, please rsvp to events@faustharrisonpianos.com.

Hui-Mei Lin, a native of Taiwan, received the William Petchek full scholarship to the Master’s program at the Juilliard School. In 2002, she received a Doctoral of Musical Arts degree from the Graduate School of the City University of New York.
She made her solo debut at the Weill Recital Hall as a winner of the Artists International Competition. She has performed solo recitals in many concert series including Music at Caramoor, Friends of Music in Stamford, NY, The Steinway Society of the Bay Area, California, Hartt School of Music, Tung Woo Univ. in Taiwan, and various colleges in the US. As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with cellist Carter Brey, flutist Robert Stallman, soprano Berenice Bramson at the Weill Recital Hall, the New Hungarian Quartet at Taos Summer Festival, New Mexico, and the Peregrine Trio throughout the North East.
Hui-Mei is currently a faculty member of the Sacred Heart University in Connecticut and the Music Director at the Briarcliff Congregational Church. She resides in Westchester with her husband, choral director/composer Peter Frost, and their two sons.

Previous Events

"Piano As Art" Art Show Opening
Featuring Artists Shauna Holliman and Penny Putnam
Thursday, January 26th

Faust Harrison Piano & Arts Center in Westchester
214 Central Avenue
White Plains, NY 10606

Faust Harrison Pianos Presents

Anna Shelest
Friday, January 13th, 8pm

Faust Harrison Piano & Arts Center in Westchester
214 Central Avenue
White Plains, NY 10606

Limited seating available, please rsvp to events@faustharrisonpianos.com.

Faust Harrison Pianos Presents


Frederic Chiu
November 11th, 8PM

Faust Harrison Pianos in Westchester
214 Central Avenue
White Plains, NY 10606

Limited seating available, please rsvp to events@faustharrisonpianos.com.


A frequent guest artist at concert venues in Europe, South America, and throughout the United States, Frederic Chiu is devoted to enhancing the live concert experience for diverse audiences. Chiu has created many innovative programs, often showcasing transcriptions and rarely-programmed repertoire. Also a skilled collaborator, he has performed with many friends and colleagues in Classical music such as Joshua Bell, Pierre Amoyal, Gary Hoffman, the St Lawrence String Quartet; as well as with artists in other genres including the jazz pianist Bob James, writer/storyteller David Gonzalez, actor Brian Bedford, and the clown Buffo. Frederic Chiu has released over 20 CDs, many available on the harmonia mundi usa label, including the complete piano works of Prokofiev, as well as works of Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Rossini and Grieg. His most recent recordings include the Beethoven/Liszt Symphony No. 5, and the solo piano version of Saint Saens’Carnival of the Animals with David Gonzalez as the narrator of verse penned with today’s young audiences in mind. In addition, he is a frequent presence on popular radio shows such as St. Paul Sunday Morning, Performance Today, and WNYC’s Greene Space. Chiu's educational program Deeper Piano Studies – a philosophic and holistic training program – brings together advanced concert pianists, promising students and piano teachers from around the world for workshops that develop a Body/Mind/Heart approach to piano-playing and music-making. He has taught at the Juilliard School, Indiana University’s Jacob School of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, the New England Conservatory and the Banff Centre, among others.
Frederic Chiu’s website, www.FredericChiu.com, contains up-to-date information about his upcoming concerts and DPS workshops, as well as links to recordings and videos.

October 15th 7PM
Hilda Huang
Grand Prize Winner of the Second Rosalyn Tureck International Bach competition

The Golden Key Salon Series at Faust Harrison
features new and distinguished performers, wine receptions, and premiere performances.

Concerts are on the first Thursday of the month, October through May.

All performances begin at 7:00 pm
Faust Harrison Pianos
207 W 58th St, NYC

$20 general admission; $10 for students with ID
Seating is limited, reservations are required.

For reservations, call 646-265-7851

Piano Recital by Frank Lévy

Sunday, December 19, at 6:30pm
Faust Harrison Pianos Manhattan Showroom
207 West 58th Street, New York

Schubertiade and Lisztiade

A musical journey of themes and transfigurations by Schubert and Liszt

Vassily Primakov & Natalia Lavrova, piano duo
Tuesday December 21, 7pm.
Faust Harrison Pianos
207 W 58th St, NYC
Free Admisison
Limited seating available on a first come, first served basis.

Vassily Primakov: The Four Arensky Suites for Two Pianos Vassily Primakov has been hailed as a pianist of world-class importance. Gramophone wrote that "Primakov's empathy with Chopin's spirit could hardly be more complete," and the American Record Guide stated: "Since Gilels, how many pianists have the right touch"
Vassily Primakov was born in Moscow in 1979. His first piano studies were with his mother, Marina Primakova. He entered Moscow's Central Special Music School at the age of eleven as a pupil of Vera Gornostaeva, and at 17 came to New York to pursue studies at the Juilliard School with the noted pianist, Jerome Lowenthal. At Juilliard Mr. Primakov won the William Petschek Piano Recital Award, which presented his debut recital at Alice Tully Hall, and while at Juilliard, aided by a Susan W. Rose Career Grant, he won both the Silver Medal and the Audience Prize in the 2002 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition. Later that year Primakov won First Prize in the 2002 Young Concert Artists (YCA) International Auditions. In 2007 he was named the Classical Recording Foundation's "Young Artist of the Year." In 2009, Primakov's Chopin Mazurkas recording was named "Best of the Year" by National Public Radio and that same year he began recording the 27 Mozart piano concertos in Denmark. In November of 2010 the first CD in a series of live performances, "Primakov in Concert, Vol. 1", will be released including works by Brahms, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.

Natalia Lavrova is a highly regarded performer of multi-faceted artistry, whose sincerity of interpretation and beguiling charm upon the stage has won the hearts of audiences across the United States and Europe. Ms. Lavrova enjoys a diverse career upon the international platform, and additionally holds substantial positions in the worlds of arts administration and pedagogy. Solo and orchestral performances have taken Ms. Lavrova throughout her native Russia to Canada, France, Hungary, Italy, United Kingdom and the United States, to include notable New York venues such as Steinway Hall, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.
Ms. Lavrova has captured top prizes at the New Orleans, Isabel Scionti, Frinna Auerbach, Heidi Hermanns, and Music Academy of the West, Silver Lake, and Senigallia International Piano Competitions. Upon her debut at the Leeds International Piano Competition, Ms. Lavrova was the youngest performer of 1996 admitted to the quarterfinal round.
Natalia Lavrova was born in Moscow in 1981. She entered the preparatory division of the Moscow Conservatory, and was subsequently accepted to The Juilliard School Pre-College Division, as a pupil in the studio of Herbert Stessin. Ms. Lavrova went on to earn her Bachelor of Music and Masters of Music degrees at Juilliard, under the tutelage of Jerome Lowenthal.

The Golden Key Salon Series at Faust Harrison
features new and distinguished performers, wine receptions, and premiere performances.

Thursday December 2
Featuring works by Rameau, Bach-Busoni, Mussorgsky, and Brahms

Jerome Lowenthal
Tuesday November 23, 8pm at
Faust Harrison Pianos
207 W 58th St, NYC
Free Admisison
Limited seating available on a first come, first served basis.

Jerome Lowenthal will be performing a program of music by Franz Liszt,
assisted by Carmel Lowenthal. The repertoire includes music from the
pianists' new 3-disc Liszt set on Bridge Records. Selected music from
Liszt's Annees de pelerinage and Christmas Tree Suite.

Jerome Lowenthal: All Liszt Program, CD release concertJerome Lowenthal is an internationally renowned, award-winning pianist, and piano professor at Juilliard. He studied in his native Philadelphia with Olga Samaroff-Stokowski, in New York With William Kapell and Edward Steuermann, and in Paris with Alfred Cartot, meanwhile traveling annually to Los Angeles for coachings with Artur Rubinstein. Mr. Lowenthal made his debut with the New York Philharmonic playing Bartok's Concerto no. 2 in 1963. He has since performed worldwide from the Aleutians to Zagreb. Conductors with whom he has appeared as a soloist include Barenboim, Ozawa, Tilson Thomas, Temirkanov, and Slatkin, as well as such giants of the past as Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy, Pierre Monteux and Leopold Stokowski. He has played sonatas with Itzhak Perlman, piano duos with Ronit Amir (his late wife), Carmel Lowenthal (his daughter), and Ursula Oppens, as well as quintets with the Lark, Avalon and Shanghai Quartets. He has recently recorded the Beethoven Fourth Concerto with cadenzas by eleven different composers. His other recordings include concerti by Tschaikovsky and Liszt, solo works by Sinding and Bartok, and chamber music by Arensky and Taneyev.

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010, 8 p.m.
Friday, October 29th, 2010, 7 p.m.

Faust Harrison Pianos
205 West 58th Street ~ New York, NY 10019
Admission: $20, adults; $10, students and seniors (CASH ONLY)


G-SHARP DUO
Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin
Yelena Grinberg, piano

BACH AND BEYOND performed by Michael Harrison

Lincoln Mayorga & Steven Richman perform at Faust Harrison Pianos

May 17th at 7 p.m.

Come to Faust Harrison on Monday evening, May 17, 7 PM, for Harmonia Mundi Recordings' press gathering, announcing the release of "Gershwin by Grofe (Original orchestrations and arrangements), a new recording by the Harmonie Ensemble of New York, conducted by Steven Richman, featuring Lincoln Mayorga, piano, and Al Gallodoro, clarinet and saxophone: Lincoln Mayorga will perform songs and solo piano pieces by the composer and his pianist-colleagues in New York, and conductor Steven Richman will talk about the working relationship between George Gershwin and Ferde Grofe which is explored in this new CD.

Alexander A. Wu performs at Faust Harrison Pianos

May 15th at 7 p.m.

Yamaha Artist and Pianist, Alexander A. Wu brings you “Fascinatin’ Rhythms”, a range of universal emotions expressed by composers throughout the ages and with an entertaining mix of music from Spain and Latin America, to the jazz classics of George Gershwin, Dave Brubeck and Oscar Peterson.

As a New York pianist, Alexander Wu has given numerous solo recitals throughout the United States and abroad. He has also appeared as both a soloist with orchestras, and a chamber player with distinguished artists in the classical, Latin andjazz worlds. Some of Mr. Wu’s recent engagements have included St. Martin in the Fields Church (London), Academia di Chigiana (Siena), Hotel del Agua, Hotel del Ornia and Auditorio del Conservatorio Victoria Superior (Granada), Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, David Rubenstein Atrium and Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall, Mannes College of Music Auditorium, Musikfest and Jazz Winterfest on the Vine. This spring Mr. Wu was featured and on live radio interviews with WXEL, NPR, WUSF and ADO/Univision for his South Florida tours sponsored by Steinway & sons and Starbucks and Bass Museum. He was a guest artist with the Juan de Salazar Spanish Cultural Center in Paraguay, South America where he performed three concerts of Spanish and Latin American music and conducted a piano master class at the Spanish Embassy.

Frederic Chiu performs at Faust Harrison Pianos

May 14th at 7 p.m.

Frederic Chiu has released over 20 CDs, including the complete piano works of Prokofiev, as well as works of Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Rossini and Grieg. Stereo Review chose his release of three rarely played sonatas of Mendelssohn as “Record of the Year”, and his most recent recording, the Beethoven/Liszt Symphony V, was produced by Judith Sherman, 2008 Grammy Producer of the Year.

Recent seasons have seen him in Memphis, Omaha, Des Moines, Portland, ME, Jacksonville, Carmel, CA, Syracuse, and San Francisco and performances with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, with Philharmonia Virtuosi, the Elgin Symphony and the Dayton Philharmonic. Mr. Chiu was a featured artist at the Valery Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam. He performed the rarely-played Left Hand Concerto of Prokofiev with the BBC Scottish Symphony, the Estonia National Symphony and the Riverside Symphony at Lincoln Center in New York. He also toured in Japan and China. He recently completed a tour with long-time friend and collaborative partner, Joshua Bell, where they performed the Mendelssohn Double Concerto for Violin and Piano. On a previous tour, they premiered a Sonata for Violin and Piano commissioned from Edgar Meyer.

Abbey Simon performs at Faust Harrison Pianos

May 13th at 7 p.m.

A New Yorker by birth, Abbey Simon received part of his academic education and his major musical training at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he was accepted by Joseph Hofmann when he was eleven years old. Shortly after his graduation from Curtis, he won the coveted Walter W. Naumberg award, which carries with it a Town Hall debut in New York City. The debut recital was followed by recitals in new York’s Carnegie Hall and extensive tours throughout the United States and Canada, which were interrupted only for enlistment in the United States army during the war.

Abbey Simon has been heard with most of the great orchestras of Europe under such eminent conductors as Sir John Barbirolli, Joseph Krips, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Walter Susskind, Colin Davis, Antal Dorati, Rafael Kubelik, George Szell, Wilhelm von Otterloo, Dean Dixon, Massimo Freccia, Eduard van Beinum, Carlo Maria Giulini, Ozawa, Mehta, Leinsdorf.

	Sunday, March 14th, 2010 at 6pm - Faust Harrison Pianos With your help, we hope to raise $40,000 during the concert. All proceeds will go to prostheses and rehabilitation for Haitian amputees. Proceeds are tax deductible. Seating is very limited. Please RSVP immediately at karen@hashaiti.org or call at 412-361-4660. Chopin/Schumann bicentennial celebration to be performed by:

	Piano Recital Vassily Primakov performs for MISHKA Children Foundation Faust Harrison Pianos on March 7, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. MISHKA Children Foundation together with Bridge Records and Faust Harrison Pianos is hosting a piano recital at Faust Harrison Pianos on February 26th, 2010. All proceeds from the ticket sales will go to sponsor medical procedures for children in the former USSR countries. The evening features a special appearance by Vassily Primakov, a highly acclaimed Moscow-born pianist whose performance will bring a special visionary touch to the works by Shostakovich (Twenty-Four Preludes Op. 34: 1932-1933) and Rachmaninoff (Ten Preludes (Op. 23: 1901-1903; Op. 32: 1910). Guests will enjoy superb music making while viewing one of the great homes of the world's finest European pianos and magnificently restored Steinways. About the performer Vassily Primakov's performances and recordings have drawn rave reviews from the international critical press, the New York Times commenting that “his bold expressive phrasing and dramatic commitment brought the audience to its feet.”  In December 2009, National Public Radio named his “Chopin: 21 Mazurkas” CD to its “Best of the Year” list.  Primakov has performed on four continents, and has been a prize-winner in many of the world's most prestigious competitions. As noted by Irina Kovaleva, the Founder of MISHKA Children Foundation, “The concert will not be only of benefit to those listening but also provide funds for those in need. The upcoming concert is a perfect example of how classical music can enlighten minds, unite hearts and support a cause!” Becky Starobin, President of Bridge Records, remarked that “Bridge Records is honored to collaborate with Faust Harrison Pianos for the benefit of the MISHKA Children Foundation.  The support received from the guests at this event will raise money for noble cause of providing medical support for the orphaned children of the former Soviet countries.”

February 28th, 7:30 p.m. Faust Harrison Pianos host concert by Hannah Sun. Music by Beethoven, Rameau and Chopin. Tickets at the door, $10 suggested donation. Hannah Sun, born in 1989, began studying the piano at the age of two in her native China. Her first teacher was her mother, concert pianist Qi Melody He. After she moved to Australia in 1995, she studied with Nehama Patkin, Stephen McIntyre, and Geoffrey Tozer, and performed several concertos with orchestra. Since moving to New York in 2002, she has studied with Phillip Kawin, the late Constance Keene, and Miyoko Lotto in the Manhattan School of Music Pre-college division as a full scholarship student, and currently with Jerome Lowenthal as a scholarship recipient at The Juilliard School. Hannah was named First Prize Winner in the Second New York Piano Competition in June 2004, presented under the auspices of The Stecher and Horowitz Foundation. As the First Prize Winner, she had the opportunity to concertize in venues up and down the East Coast. Hannah's first concert following the NYPC was performing the Schumann Piano Concerto four weeks later with The Manhattan Chamber Orchestra at New York's Trinity Church, appearing under the baton of Richard Aulden Clark. Hannah's participation in this competition has been viewed nationally in the documentary BEYOND THE PRACTICE ROOM, a behind-the-scenes look at the competition, shown on PBS. Following the competition, she has also appeared several times on the McGraw-Hill Young Artists Showcase hosted by Robert Sherman on WQXR, New York’s Classical Music Radio Station. Other performances with orchestra have been Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Orchestra of Southern Utah under Xun Sun in 2005, Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A Major, K.414 with the LaGuardia Symphony Orchestra in 2007, which she conducted from the piano, and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Corda Spirita Chamber Orchestra in Brisbane, Australia the following year, under John Curro. Hannah has also received numerous scholarships and awards, such as a scholarship to attend the Fontainebleau Summer Music Festival, where she received the Prix Nadia Boulanger, Silver Award from the National Foundation of the Advancement of the Arts, after which she attended the youngARTS week in Miami, Florida, third prize in the Kosciuszko Foundation's Chopin Piano Competition, first prize in the Long Island School Media Association (LISMA) International Music Competition, full scholarships at the International Keyboard Institute and Festival at Mannes College of Music, full scholarship to the International Academy of Music in St. Petersburg, Russia, and grants from the Children's Foundation for the Arts. Hannah also studied conducting at LaGuardia High School, where she was an instrumental student, and at the Manhattan School of Music Pre-college division. She has conducted the LaGuardia Symphony Orchestra, in concert, in Mozart’s “Magic Flute” Overture and Mozart’s Piano Concerto K414 from the piano.

Jerome Lowenthal performs Liszt in Switzerland January 15, 2010, 7pm, Free Event Faust Harrison Pianos 205 W 58th St, NYC Availability:40 seats on a first come, first served basis, plus standing room (no reservations accepted) There are parking garages nearby and limited street parking available. Faust Harrison Pianos proudly presents Jerome Lowenthal in a solo recital. Jerome Lowenthal is an internationally renowned, award-winning pianist, and piano professor at Juilliard. Jerome studied in his native Philadelphia with Olga Samaroff-Stokowski, in New York With William Kapell and Edward Steuermann, and in Paris with Alfred Cartot, meanwhile traveling annually to Los Angeles for coachings with Artur Rubinstein. Mr. Lowenthal made his debut with the New York Philharmonic playing Bartok’s Concerto no. 2 in 1963.  He has since performed worldwide from the Aleutians to Zagreb. Conductors with whom he has appeared as a soloist include Barenboim, Ozawa, Tilson Thomas, Temirkanov, and Slatkin, as well as such giants of the past as Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy, Pierre Monteux and Leopold Stokowski.  He has played sonatas with Itzhak Perlman, piano duos with Ronit Amir (his late wife), Carmel Lowenthal (his daughter), and Ursula Oppens, as well as quintets with the Lark, Avalon and Shanghai Quartets.  He has recently recorded the Beethoven Fourth Concerto with cadenzas by eleven different composers.  His other recordings include concerti by Tschaikovsky and Liszt, solo works by Sinding and Bartok, and chamber-music by Arensky and Taneyev.